Please Try and Help Terri...... 4108

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:28:08 +0000, Logan Shaw

Indeed it does.

I think it's rather silly to buttume that we can't...after all, nature seems to be able to do it just fine. We should be able to not only do the same, but improve on it. And in fact, the evolution of computers is coming along at a much higher rate than the evolution of brains. It's an encouraging sign on the hardware side. Strong AI has always been "just around the corner" yet never appears...mainly for the reason that for years Strong AI focused on the software side. It was believed that all you needed was the right software, and the hardware didn't need to be *all* that powerful really. Now we've mostly wised up.

As for software, it may take longer than hardware, but I don't doubt that'll get there either. If only from studying and mapping the neural networks of our own brains (the science of which improves daily), and applying them to neural networks on computers.

In my mind, machine intelligence (and consciousness) is only a matter of time.

Well, they aren't *built* to think like us though, but are built specifically as expert systems, designed around a single task. They don't think like we do because they aren't emulations of the way humans think. That much is obvious.